Missing Mrs. Lowry: The Billionaire’s Wakeup Call

Chapter 104

The office was a quiet sanctuary. Alton’s slender, gold–watch adorned wrist extended and handed over a platinum business card bearing his private number.

Megan accepted it gently. After a long, searching look, she asked softly, “Why help me? I thought you’d side with Sullivan.”

Alton didn’t respond, instead leaning back in his chair and taking a contemplative draw from his cigar.

Truth be told, he didn’t know why as well. But if pressed for an answer, it might have been the memory from the hospital when he saw the shocking lines etched into Megan’s wrists, a painful echo of his own mother’s scars.

The difference, though, was stark. His mother had longed for death, and so she left.

Megan, on the other hand, clung to life.

Maybe it was something that lit up a spark of his compassion, he thought.

As Megan left, the business card was almost soaked with the sweat of her clenched palm.

Returning to Sullivan’s side, she was the picture of success to the world, but behind closed doors, it was a different story. Yet she rarely allowed herself to entertain thoughts of leaving Sullivan. She didn’t dare. But now, amid the despair, a sliver of hope seemed to beckon.

She stepped out of the elevator at the lobby.

to her surprise, she saw Begonia. Separated by

one

Begonia was there for. She

wife, but because…

feelings, and she never had a chance to reject them.

doors spun on, light and

If it weren’t for Sullivan, she could have at least called out to Begonia

had other

to save her, while she,

the law firm, a black sedan idled with its window halfway down.

eyes betrayed a

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wife harbored feelings for

feelings, they were there, and

at him with that